tearing's Usage Examples:

He focused on the taste of their warm blood and on tearing them limb from limb.

He pounced, tearing at the jumper.

This midwestern group has been tearing up the charts for the last decade and has released six very successful albums along the way.

She came tearing upstairs a few minutes ago in a state of great excitement.

"Dunyasha!" she screamed wildly, and tearing herself out of this silence she ran to the servants' quarters to meet her old nurse and the maidservants who came running toward her.

Mustering his strength, he leapt, tearing the woman out of the attacker's grip and rolling several feet with her.

She reported chronic symptomology that included tearing, photophobia, swollen lids, pain behind the eyes, and intermittent diplopia.

 The sound of the earth tearing grew louder.

Gory acts such as decapitation, pulling the arms off of an opponent, or tearing their bodies in half were just a few of the moves.

A sprain is damage to or tearing of ligaments or a joint capsule.

While Pierre was running the few steps that separated him from the Frenchman, the tall marauder in the frieze gown was already tearing from her neck the necklace the young Armenian was wearing, and the young woman, clutching at her neck, screamed piercingly.

The wind snapped free of its bonds, nearly tearing her from his grip with its first gust.

Your psychosis, depressions, murderous impulses, short sighted narrow minded and utterly primitive barbarism is tearing into me.

Synonyms:

watering, body process, lacrimation, lachrymation, bodily process, bodily function, activity,

Antonyms:

anastalsis, peristalsis, source, sink, activation,